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March 19, 2015, New York – In response to the ruling by a federal judge today agreeing with the City’s proposal that the New York City police unions be consulted during the Joint Reform Process resulting from the Center for… Read More >>

March 5, 2015, Paris/Berlin/New York – Today, at an appeals hearing at the Chambre de l’instruction de la Cour d’appel de Paris, the attorney for former Guantánamo detainees Nizar Sassi and Mourad Benchellali, William Bourdon, challenged an… Read More >>

March 4, 2015, New York – Esteemed professor and intellectual Dr. Cornel West has cancelled a high-profile lecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in support of a boycott of the university over the firing of Professor Steven Salaita.… Read More >>

February 19, 2015, Chicago – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court to dismiss a terrorism indictment against two animal rights activists alleged to have freed thousands of animals from Midwestern fur farms. The… Read More >>

February 18, 2015, Washington D.C. – Today, the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) vacated former Guantánamo prisoner David Hicks’s conviction in the military commissions for providing material support for terrorism. Hicks was the first prisoner to be convicted in… Read More >>

February 12, 2015, Oakland – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal judge to expand a class action lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California prisons to include prisoners who were moved from the Security Housing Unit… Read More >>

February 6, 2015, Alexandria, VA – Today, four Iraqi victims tortured at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison urged a federal district court to reject attempts by private military contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc. (CACI) to have their lawsuit for the… Read More >>

Report: Recidivism on the rise for former Gitmo detainees
A new report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence shows an uptick in the rate of recidivism among former Guantanamo Bay detainees released during…

"Months after failing to scuttle a landmark settlement to reform stop-and-frisk policies, five New York City police unions muscled their way Thursday into playing a limited role on the deal's implementation. ..."

"Prosecutors are not overreaching in using an anti-terrorism statute against young activists accused of releasing thousands of minks from an Illinois fur factory, a federal judge ruled. ..."
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"Police reform advocates expressed cautious optimism this week over a new set of guidelines for when New York City police officers can stop and frisk people on the street, a reform aimed at reining in…

"It’s stop-and-frisk 101.
Cops were given new step-by-step instructions on how and when to conduct stop-and-frisks, the Daily News has learned. ..."
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CCR filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Vulcan Society and three individual African-American firefighter applicants, charging the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) with racially discriminatory hiring practices. This WBAI program discusses the Vulcans.

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Australia has been put forward as an eventual permanent home for the six Chinese Muslim Uighurs who have arrived in the Pacific Island nation of Palau, after seven years in detention at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The six men accepted the offer to relocate to Palau, after the US asked the government there if it was prepared to accept some, or all of the Uighers it was holding at Guantanamo. But the resettlement offer for the six men is only temporary, until they can find a permanent home, preferably a country with an established Uighur community. Both the lawyers representing the former detainees, and the President of Palau, want Australia to consider taking the men. But as Pacific Correspondent Campbell Cooney reports, any country offering sanctuary is likely to incur the wrath of China, which considers the Guantanamo Uighurs as terrorists.

Presenter: Pacific Correspondent Campbell Cooney
Speaker: Palau's President Johnson Toribiong; Andrew Bartlett, a former Australian Democrats Senator, now a Research Fellow in Immigration Law at the Australian National University; Lawyer representing three of the Uighurs in Palau, Michael Stenhell